The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound’s The Cantos

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INDEX References to individual Cantos are printed in boldface type. ABC of Reading (Pound), 11 Adams, Stephen]., 63, 93n. 4 Adonis, 136-37,151-52,180 Aegisthus, 168 Aeneas, 136-37 Aeneid. See Virgil Agresti, Olivia Rossetti, xii, 18n. 2, 47, 65-66 Albigensianism, 37-39,127,134-36, 166; and the Catholic Church, 38,134-36 Alchemy, 170-71 A Lume Spento (Pound), 63 Amphion, 164 Anastos, Milton A., 140 Anchises, 136-37,180 Anderson, David, 54n. 1 Anderson, Margaret, 82, 97 n. 41 Andreae,Johann Valentin,43 Aphrodite, 109,137-38,142,147, 148,167,175,176,183 Apollonius ofTyana, 13, 57 n. 24, 174-76,182 "Apparuit" (Pound), 63 Apuleius, 4 Artemis, 117,180 Athena, 114,121-22,125 Atkinson, W.W. [pseud. Ramacharaka , Yogi], 66-67, 94n. 10 Augoeides, 170-72,177,183 Bacchus. See Dionysus Bacigalupo, Massimo, 181 Bacon, Francis, 45 Balzac, Honore, 13, 65 Barry, Iris, 63 Beinecke Rare Book Library, xii, 18n. 2,23, 65-66, 82-83, 97n.41,109,185 n. 10,185 n. 13 Bell, Ian F.A., xiii, 21n. 24,131 Bergson, Moina, 132 Bernouard, Francis, 161 Bernstein, Michael, 101-102 Binyon, Laurence, 165 Bion, 148 Bird, William, 47 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 13, 2324 , 49-53, 57 n. 26, 85, 99 n. 57. See also Theosophical Society; Theosophy Bloom, Harold, 39 Boat, 113,119,123,153n. 11 Bowers, Faubion, 62-63 Brancusi, Constantin, 13 British Museum, xii Brook-Rose, Christine, 134 Bruno, Giordano, 42 Cabala, xii, 39-40 Cadmus, 175 Cantos, The (Pound), 101-88 passim; cryptological reading of, 6; 207 208 EZRAPOUND AND THE OCCULT Eleusinian mysteries in, xi, 105-106,135-38,143-46 passim; enlightened souls in, 106; exoteric/esoteric nature of, 7-8, 101,150-51,160; genesis of, 61; Hellenistic religious thoughtin, \Q\;hierosgamos'm, 107,120, 142,144,147-48,152,175; main scheme of, xi, 10; Neoplatonism in, 138-42; mythos of, xi, 102;as palingenesis, 6-9, 62,91, 101-108,114,120,130,152,160, 161-62,177-78; individual cantos: 1:106,108,109,146,168;2: 152; 3: 133; 4: 117,133,179; 5: 134,138; 8: 133,139-41 passim; 14:109; 15:91-92,109,124-25, 126; 16:109; 17:104,108-127, 150; 20:133,146; 23: 104, 127-142,180; 24:133; 26:133, 139,141;36:107,125,143,151; 39: 109,125,142,143,146,150; 41:143; 42:142,144,146; 43: 142,143,144,146; 44:142,144; 45:142,143,144-46; 46:142, 144,146; 47: 104,107,109,125, 137,142,143,146-52;49:3,142, 143,152; 50: 143; 51: 3,142; 72: 184n. 9; 73: 184n. 9; 74: 103, 119,178;76:165,166; 77: 65; 79: 84; 81: 7,107; 82: 159; 83: 140; 84: 159; 85: 163,165; 87: 46,165,166; 88: 3; 89: 65; 90: 88,104,143,159,160,162-69, 173,177; 91:45,67,88,104, 110,143,152,159,160162, 169-84; 93: 65,126,152; 94: 119,120,176; 96:98n. 48,119; 98:114,119; 99:161; 100:120; 101:110;106:125,161; 110:1; 116:162; 117: 7,160-61 Cantrell, Carol H., 137 Carmagnola, 126 Castalia, 167 Catholic Church, 2,18n. 2 "Cavalcanti" (Pound), 7,179 Caves, 112-13 Ceres. See Demeter Circe, 109, 125,147, 149-50,161, 176 Cocteau, 13 Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound (Pound), 93n. 6 Confucius, 13 Corpus Hermeticum, 13,41-43,126 Curie, Marie, 131-33 Curie, Pierre, 131-32 Dante, 7,13,47,108,130178 Davenport, Guy,121, 125,130 Davis, AndrewJackson, 48 Davis, Kay,105,107,153n. 5 Deipnosophistae. See Stesichorus Dekker, George, 104 Delphi, 164,166 Demeter, 3,29 D'Epiro, Peter, 155 n. 34 Descent. See Katabasis. Diana. SeeArtemis Dionysus, 30,115,116,121,168.See also lacchos and Zagreus Divine Mystery, The (Upward), 77 Doctrine of the Subtle Body, The (Mead), 67, 90-91,130-31, 169-74,178,184 Dodona, 166 Doolittle, Hilda. SeeH.D. Douglas, Major C.H., 80 Draft of XXX Cantos, A (Pound), 102, 161 Drake, Sir Francis, 178-79 Drotnena. See Palingenesis Echoesfrom theGnosis (Mead), 89-90, 110-11 Eder, David, 81 Egypt, 126 Eidos, 7,10,107,137,177 Electra, 168 Eleusinian Mysteries, xii,4-5,29-31, 105,125,152n.4.See<«ko Eleusinian Mysteries in Cantos, The Eleven New Cantos (Pound), 102, 142-43 Eliade, Mircea, 26,107 INDEX 209 Eliot, T.S., 3, 27 Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 175, 178-79 Elliott, Angela, xiv, xviii n. 1, 56 n. 22,92 n. 1,96 n. 31, 97 n. 33,99 n. 49,131,154 n. 24, 156 n. 39,186 n. 25 Ellmann, Richard, xiii, 24 Ellwood, Jr., Robert S., 50-51 Emery, Clark, xiii, xviii n. 1,20 n. 14, 21 n. 27,92n.l, 142,143,147, 152,156 n. 39,158 n. 48,159, 186n.25 End to Torment (H.D.), 64-65, 68 Epopteia. See Palingenesis Erebus, 167,168 Erigena,Johannes Scotus, 13,46,166 Este, Borso d', 126 Este, Niccolo d', 133,155 n. 31 Ezra Pound and Eleusis.See Eleusinian Mysteries Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens (Pound), xii, 82 Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear (Pound), 68, 69, 72-75 passim, 82-84 Ezra Pound andJohn Theobald (Pound), xii, 78,82, 84, 89, 99 n. 57 Fa-Han, 133 Farr, Florence, 71 Ferrara-Florence, Council of, 41, 127,141 Festugiere, AJ., 5 Ficino, Marcilio, 5,13, 41-42, 88,139 Fifth Decad of Cantos, The (Pound), 102,143 Finley.John, L, 95 n. 19 Flint, F.S., 79 Flory, Wendy S., xiii Fludd, Robert, 44 Ford, Ford Madox, 11,16 Fox Sisters, 48 Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (Mead), 25,27, 83,87,147-48 Frazer, SirJames, 5, 75,165 Freemasons, 13,45-46,47 French, William, xiv, 20 n. 15, 59, 66 Friedman, Susan Stanford, 93 n. 7 Frobenius, Leo, 5 Furia, Philip, 157 n. 41 Galbreath, Robert, 26 Gates, 110,113,120 Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir (Pound), 73,89-90,141 GeTm, Lazlo, 9 Geryon, 3,146 Giovannini, Giovanni, 97 n. 41 Gnosis, xii, 8-9,20n. 13,34,104-105, 182 Gnosticism, xii,33-36, 55 nn. 16-17, 121 Green, H.C., 65 Gregory, Lady Augusta, 68 Grieve, Thomas, 165 Grosseteste, Robert, 13 Guest, Barbara,64 Guide toKulchur (Pound), 3, 7-16 passim, 65, 67, 87, 91,106,127, 138,140,143,144,161 Gurdjieff, G.I., 13, 82 Hades, 29 Hall, Donald, 61,74 Harper, George Mills, xii, xiii, 70-71, 74 Harrison, Jane Ellen, 115 Hastings, Beatrice,80 H.D., 13,60,64-68,94n. 12;and spiritualism, 65; and "Yogi books," 65-66, 68; works: End to Torment, 64-65, 68; HERmione, 62 Helen of Tyre, 36, 87,147,175, 186n. 23 Helios, 126,129,154 n. 20,180 "Hell Cantos" (Pound), 130 Hellenistic syncretism, 28,31-33,41, 77 Herakles, 129-32,166 Hermes, 109,121-22,149 Hermes Trismegistus, 41, 88,126 Hermeticism, xii, 41-43 HERmione (H.D.), 62 Hesiod, 137 210 EZRA POUND ANDTHE OCCULT Heydon,John, 13,45, 57n. 24,163, 165-66,182 Heyman, Katherine Ruth, 60-64, 65, 93 n. 4 Hierophant, 30,136 Hierosgamos, 14, 18, 55 n. 11, 90, 105, 107,120,127, 136,142-48 passim, 152,175 Hodgson, Richard, 52-53 Homer, 105,109, 111, 112, 114,117, 125,161,165,175 Homeric Hymn toAphrodite, 137 Homeric Hymn toDemeter, 29 Horton, W.T., 70-71 Hough, Graham, 23-24 Hutchins, Patricia, xii, 63, 82, 84, 93 n. 5, 95 n. 22 Hynes, Samuel, 26, 54n. 6,155 n. 28 iacchos, 30; See also Dionysus lamblichus, 13 "I Gather the Limbs of Osiris" (Pound), 10 Iliad. See Homer Inge, Dean, 33 Initiation. See Palingenesis Ino, 175 Isis, 167 Ithaca, 125,126 Izzo, Carlo, 145 Jackson, Holbrook, 78-79 Jefferson and/or Mussolini (Pound), 102 Joan of Arc, 183 Jonas, Hans, 28,32,33-34,35,147 Jove. See Zeus Joyce,James, 27 Katabasis, 30,103-105,107,109,115, 117-19,123,127,128,130, 136-38 passim, 142,146,148, 168,180. See also Palingenesis Kenner, Hugh, xiii, 99 n. 49,131,166 Kerenyi.Q, 152n.4, 153n.7 Kingsland, William,51 knights Templar, 46,164,166 Knox, Bryant, 74, 75 Kore, 29,125,148 Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 41 Kuch, Peter, 51-52 Kuhn, Alvin Boyd, 49 Lacarriere,Jacques, 33 Lamberton, Robert, 111, 112 Laughlin,James, 21 n. 25, 31, 152 n. 4, 157 n. 45 Laurie, Peter Hamilton, 97 n. 39, 153n. 5 Layamon, 181 Leadbeater, CharlesWebster, 85, 98 n. 45 Leopoldo, Pietro, 144 Leucochoe, 175 Leucothea, 114,175,181-82 Levenson, Michael H., 73, 98 n. 42 Lexicon, Greek-English, 129-30 Libera, Sharon Mayer, xiii, 13, 91-92, 104,108,118,123,138-39,141, 153n. 9,153 n. 10,156 n. 37 Lilly Library,xii, 47 Literary Essays (Pound), 10,11,17, 161 Little Review: The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson, the (Pound), 82, 97 n. 41 Litz, A. Walton, xiii Logo*, 32,126 Longenbach,James, xii, xiii, 92 n. 1, 94 n. 13,94n. 15, 95n. 16, 153n. 6 Macleod, Fiona, 86 McLuhan, Marshall,54 n. 7 McPherson, Douglas, 8 Maensac, Austors de, 134 Maensac, Peire de, 133-34 Magic, 37. See also Occultism Magnus, Albertus, 13 Magus, Simon. See Simon Magus Maier, Michael, 44 Mairet,Philip,78,81,95n.21 Makin, Peter, 19n. 12 "Malatesta Cantos" (Pound), 139-40 Malatesta, Nowy, 141 Malatesta, Sigismundo, 41,126, 140-41,143 INDEX 211 Manes, 13,102-103 Manicheanism, 37 Masons. See Freemasons Materer, Timothy, xiv, 57n. 24, 66 McDowell, Colin, xiv, 67,98n. 47, 160,184,184 n. 2 Mead, G.R.S.,xii, 5,13,82-92, 99n. 53,99n. 57,106,152 n. 4, 159; in Taylor, Thomas, 107-108; works: The Doctrine of the Subtle Body, 67, 90-91, 130-31,169-74,178,184;Echoes from the Gnosis, 89-90,110-11; Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, 25, 27, 83, 87,147-48; "Foreword," Selected Works ofPlotinus, 91; "Occultism," 25; Orpheus, 87-88, 106,116-17; The Quest, 68, 85-86; "The Rising Psychic Tide," 26-27; Simon Magus, 87, 148; Thrice-Greatest History, 88-89,126; The World Mystery, 83 Medici, Cosimo de', 41, 88,141 Memnon, 122 Mencius, 165 Mesmer, Franz Anton, 46 Mesmerism, 46 Metamorphoses. See Ovid Metamorphosis, 3-4,108-109, 115-16,164,172 Mirandola, Pico della, 5,13 Mithraic mysteries, 110,166 Mitrinovic, Dmitri, 81 Miyake, Akiko, xiv, xviii n. 1, 125, 153 n. 13,154 n. 25 "Moeurs Contemporaines" (Pound), 66 Molay,Jacques de, 46,165 Montsegur, 38,135,136,166 Moore, Robert Lawrence, 48 Moore, Virginia, 97 n. 32, 99 n. 50 Morris, William, 64 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 13 Mussolini, Benito, 143 Myesis, xii, 30 Mylonas, George E., 29-30,152n. 4 Mystes, 4, 30,117,119,126,147,162, 169,177 Nanny, Max, 20n. 16 Nekuia, 102,146,147 Neoplatonic traditionof reading the epic, 111-12 Neoplatonism, xii, 36-37, 56nn. 1920 ,105,127,138-39 Nerea, Cave of, 110,117-18,119, 120,123 Nereus, 110 Nethercot, Arthur H., 85 New Age,The.See Orage, A.R. New Word, The (Upward), 75-77 Norman, Charles, 62, 63 "Note Precedent to 'La Fraisne'" (Pound), 67,94n. 11 Nous, 3,138,142 O'Brien, Elmer,36-37 Ocellus, 13,175 Occultism, definition of, xii, 24-27, 53; during Hellenisticage, 28-29; and science, 25-26,51, 73,131-33,186n. 19 Oderman, Kevin, xiv, 19 n. 10, 99n.49,143,185 n. 18 Odysseus, 105-109 passim, 114,115, 125,127,129-30,143,149-50, 161,168,174,175,181-82 Odyssey. See Homer Olcott, Colonel Henry, 49, 52, 85 Oppenheim,Janet, 53 Orage, A.R.,xii, 13,75, 78-82; Leeds Art Club, 79; Nietzsche, on Friedrich, 79; psychoanalysis, 81-82; The Theosophical Society, 77-79 Orpheus (Mead), 87-88,106,116-17 Orphism, 31-32, 87,116 Ouspensky, P.O., 82 Ovid, 3-4,105,136 Palingenesis, 2-4, 28, 87, 89,101-88 passim Pearlman, Daniel, xi, 104,131 Peck,John, 133 Pcctencteis, 120,150-51,154n. 17 Peladan,Josephin, xi, 13,38-39,135 Penty, A.J., 78-79 212 EZRA POUNDANDTHEOCCULT Persephone. See Kor6 Personae (Pound), 68, 163 Philostratus.98n.48,174,175 Pisan Cantos (Pound), 64,102-103, 140,159 Pistoria, Leonardo da, 41 Plato, 5,13,36 Plethon, Georgius Gemistus, 13,41, 88,127,138-42 Plotinus, 13,36-37,91,108,138 "Plotinus" (Pound), 66 Pluto,3 Poitier, Guillaume de, 173 Porphyry, 13,138,149,178,183; commentary on Odyssey, 109-14 Poseidon, 140,182 Pound, Dorothy. SeeShakespear, Dorothy Pound, Ezra: Albigensians, 38-39, 46; American paideuma, 143; at the British Museum in 1906, 60; Catholic Church, 2; "Celestial Tradition," 11-15,38-39, 87-88, 140-41,166-67; Eleusis, xiv, 2, 13,30-31,135,137,173; Fontainebleau , visit to, 82, 96n. 29; Gnosticism, 36;Hellenistic rituals, 106; Heydon.John, 45; hierophant of art, as, 123; H.D., introduces to occult, 64-65, 93n. 7; hierosgamos in, 18,30-31, 90,104; Horton's letters toYeats, in, 70-71; imagistic poetics and science, 11; letters to parents,xii, 68, 82-83, 97nn. 34-36; London years, xii, 9,23,26-27, 59, 68-69; Mead, G.R.S., 82-84,87, 90,92; Mead's Quest Society lectures, attendance at, 68, 83; Mead, debt to, 87-88, 90; metamorphosis, 2-3; myth, 15-16; Neoplatonism, 37, 56n. 19; Nietzsche, Friedrich, 80; occult, xi, 47-48, 53, 65-66, 82, 84; Orage's mysticism, disapproval of, 47; paganism, 16-18; The Quest, in, 68, 82, 84, 86; religious beliefs of, 1-2, 11,21 n. 25; reading of Odyssey, 114; scholarship on Pound and the occult,xiii-xiv; Shakespear, Olivia, 71-72; Swedenborg, 47; symbolism, 72-74,89-90; Taylor, Thomas, 43; Upward's work, on, 75-76, 80;Venice, in, 123;Yeats's psychic research, disapproval of, xiv, 47, 69-70; Yeats,at Stone Cottage with, 47, 69 Provence, 38-39,135-36,173 Psellus, 13,88,138 "Psychology and Troubadours" (Pound), 10,11,15-16,36,68, 73,87,92,177 Pythagoras, 13, 166 Pythagoreanism, 31-32, 87 Quest Society, The, 74, 83-84, 86 Quest, The, 68, 85-86 Ramacharaka, Yogi. See Atkinson, W.W. Rachewiltz, Boris de, 56n. 22, 152n. 4, 164, 165, 177,179,180, 187n.30 Rachewiltz, Mary de, 18n. 2 Raine, Kathleen, xiii Ra-Set, Princess, 176-78 passim, 180 Read, Forrest, 19n. 8 Reid, Robert, 132-33 Reina, 173-74 Reitzenstein, Richard, 4, 6-7 "Religio" (Pound), 17-18, 87, 90 Rock Drill (Pound), 103 Rosenkruz, Christian, 43 Rosicrucianism, 43-45 Rossetti, Gabriele, 47, 65-66 Rudolph, Kurt, 33, 34 San Ku, 165, 166 Santayana, George, 166 Saurat, Denis, 90 Schmitt, Charles B., 42 Schneidau, Herbert N., xiv, 9-11 passim, 185n. 17 Scholem, Gershom G., 40 Schultz, Robert, 95n. 24 INDEX 213 Schwob, Marcel, 64-65 Scriabin, Alexander,63 "Scriptor Ignotus" (Pound), 60-61 Segal, Robert, 55 n. 16 Selected Letters of Ezra Pound (Pound), 8,10, 62, 63, 69, 75, 80,104-105, 119,133,145-46 Selected Prose of Ezra Pound (Pound), 2,11,76-78 passim, 80,56 n. 20, 96n.25,120,131-32,143 Selected Works ofPlotinus (Mead), 91 Selloi, 165-66 Shakespear, Dorothy, xii, 72, 82-84. See also Ezra Pound/Dorothy Shakespear Shakespear, Olivia, xii, 71-72, 94 n. 15; introduces Pound to Yeats, 23 Sibylla, 167 Sieburth, Richard,161 Sigismond. SeeMalatesta, Sigismundo Simon Magus, 36, 87,147-48,151, 171,186 n. 23 Simon Magus (Mead), 87,148 Sinistrari, Lodovico Maria, 67, 94 n. 11 Smith, Warren Sylvester, 24, 48 Smith, William Brook, 62 Society for Psychical Research, 52-53,79 Sophia, 147 Spenser, Edmund, 44-45 Spirit of Romance, The (Pound), 108 Spiritualism, 48-49 Stesichorus, 128-31,133 Stock, Noel, xiv, xviii n. 1,2, 5, 19n. 5,164,186n. 25 Summers, Montague, 94 n. 11, 94 n. 12 Sun. See Helios Surette, Leon,xiv, 80, 95n. 20,104, 173; Light,xi-xii,xiv, 3-4,30, 38-39,61,135,147,153n. 13, 158 n. 49,160,168-69,182, 186n.24,188 n. 31; "The Birth of Modernism," 20 n. 13, 94 n. 9,152 n. 1 Swabey, Henry, 8 Swedenborg, Emanuel, 7,13,46-48 Swedenborgianism, 46 Symbolism, 72-74 Symons, Arthur, 73 Synesius, 130-31 Tamuz, 148 Taylor, Thomas, 37, 43, 57n. 23, 105-106,111,112,116,149-50 Tempio Malatestiano, 41,142 Terracina, 175 "Terra Italica" (Pound), 16-17,38, 88, 89,135-36,175 Terrell, Carroll F., xiv, 62,104,122, 166,169-70,173,175,176, 185 n. 11 Thatcher, David S., 95n. 23 Theobald, John. See Ezra Pound/John Theobald Theodora, Empress, 175 Theophany, 127,137-38 Theosophical Society, The, 23-24, 49-50,52,77-79, 85-86. See also Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Theosophy, xii, 48-53. See also Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Theurgy, xii, 24, 47, 69. See also Occultism Thrice-Greatest History (Mead), 88-89, 126 Thrones (Pound), 103 Titans, 116-17 Translations (Pound), 69-70 "Tree, The" (Pound), 68,163 Troubadours, 127 "Troubadours —Their Sorts and Conditions" (Pound), 134 Twitchell,Jeffrey, 157 n. 44 Tytell,John,61,66 Undine, 174-75 Upward, Allen,xii, 13,74-78; works: The New Word, 75-77; The Divine Mystery, 77 "Ur-Cantos" (Pound), 45, 57n. 24, 182 Usura,3,144-45,146 214 EZRA POUNDAND THE OCCULT Valli, Luigi,7,19n. 12 Venice, 117,122-23 Ventadorn, Bernartde, 161,173 Venus. See Aphrodite Virgil, 102,105,109 Vorticism, 9,10, 90 Waite, A.E., 86 Webb, James, 79, 81, 95 n. 20 Weston,Jessie L, 185n. 11 Wilhelm,James J., xiii, 37, 65-66, 92 n. 3,161 Wilson, F.A.C., 70 Wind, Edgar, 4-6 World Mystery, The (Mead), 83 Yates, Francis, 13,39, 41-45 passim Yeats, William Butler, xii, 13, 59, 68, 69-71,183; critics on Yeats and the occult, xiii, 54 n. 3; Horton, W.T., 70-71; theosophical phase, 23-24, 53; introduces Pound to occult circles, 24, 67; Mead, G.R.S., 97n. 32; symbolism, 73-74 Ygdrasail, 163 Zagreus, 115, 116-17, 121 Zeus, 29,165-66,168 Zothar, 125 ...